Category: | Jain Art |
Type: | Bronze sculpture |
Motif: | Seated Tirthankara |
Name: | Enthroned Tirthankara attended by a Yaksha, a Yakshi, and Chauri-Bearers |
Site: | Context of discovery unknown |
Union state: | Karnataka |
Country: | India |
Year: | 800-1000 CE |
Era: | Chalukyan period |
Material: | Copper alloy |
Height: | 24,8 cm |
Inscription: | Unknown |
Custody: | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Collection: | Samuel Eilenberg Collection |
Purchase: | Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987 |
Inventory-No.: | 1987.142.335 |
Description: | This Digambara icon from the Deccan Plateau shows a jina meditating beneath a flowering tree, following the conventions seen in Buddhist sculptures of the period. As in Buddhist images, the jina is flanked by attendants - the nature-deity yaksha and yakshi replacing the bodhisattvas - and fly-whisk bearers gesturing their readiness to fan him. A lion-supported throne and triple umbrellas confirm the regal status. Rock-cut versions of such compositions appear frequently in the Pandyan territories of northern Tamil Nadu in the eighth and ninth centuries, a date range to which this bronze can be assigned. |
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